Community Kitchen Garden: Tomato Suckers and More!
By Janine Butler, Garden Volunteer, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Do you know what I love about this volunteer gig? Every time I go to the garden I learn something new […]
Community Kitchen Garden: Weeds and Bugs – Two Guaranteed Occurrences in Gardening!
by Janine Butler, garden volunteer In last week’s blog, I commented on how well all the plants had been growing over the last couple of weeks. Well guess what else […]
Butterflies and Flowers, Making Waves in Richmond: a Round-up
by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden The flurry of activity around Butterflies LIVE! and the Garden has been incredible these past few days. What an incredible […]
The Butterflies Are Here! The Butterflies Are Here!
by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Wow, there is some really exciting stuff going on at the Garden! The Rose Garden is in full bloom, just […]
Community Kitchen Garden: Planting Day Success!
By Janine Butler, garden volunteer Today was awesome! About a hundred people participated in the celebration planting day this morning, including a group of 20 4- and 5-year-old students from New Directions Daycare. […]
Community Kitchen Garden: Planting Day is May 14th!
by Janine Butler, garden volunteer Planting day has been scheduled! If you’d like to come witness the planting of the Community Kitchen Garden at Lewis Ginter, mark your calendars for […]
Community Kitchen Garden: Plans for Planting
by Janine Butler, garden volunteer I went to a local store at the weekend with my neighbor, Susan, who was buying a few plants for her own home vegetable garden. […]
Community Kitchen Garden: Breaking Ground
by Janine Butler, Garden volunteer You may have already heard some of the buzz about an exciting new project here at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden — the plan is to […]
Lewis Ginter to Grow 10,000 lbs of Food for Local Foodbank
by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden What do the Obamas and Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden have in common? Easy — we are both trying to do […]
The White House — The Ultimate Urban Garden
Everybody seems to have their own favorite pick for the White House Farmer. Mine of course is Charlie Collins, who happens to be a good friend and the farmer at […]